We have a production flexpod environment - AFAIK totally standard design - Dual ASA / Dual 4900 / Dual 5548 / dual N1010 / Dual FI / Dual Netapp / 4 physical hosts.
I have been asked to assist as the VM guys were having an issue with assigning ports to a new VM - the Port comes up as down - blocked by admin.
All the network 'settings' options within vSphere are greyed out.
When I tried to SSH to the N1010v / VSM it is not responding on the configured IP address, I have accessed it previously as I have putty logs from End Jan for both the VSM and the N1010v addresses. I CAN get to the CIMC (Chassis) console via SSH and Http.
The Port on the N5548 to the N1010 is up, but there are no MAC forwarding entries for that port...
This suggests that the virtual N1010 is down / crashed?
Is it possible to access the VSM or Virtual Switch Out of band - using either KVM or Access the serial port of the virtual switch via SSH/telnet?
How do I access / manage the Virtual Switch (N1010) VM on the N1010 host?
If I restart the N1010 host will that kill networking for the whole flexpod stack? Having done that how do I check that the N1010 VM is running?
Thanks
David
